Re: Kernel 2.0.34
What is the significance of packages being in Incoming?
Is it safe to d/l and use them from there, or do things in Incoming have
further processing to undergo before being ready for use?
Thanks,
Timothy
On 15-Jun-98 Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know when the .deb package for the 2.0.34 kernel source
>> will be available? Will it be soon, or should I go ahead use a tgz? (What
>> are
>> the disadvantages of this as opposed to using the .deb file?)
>
> There's a kernel source package at llug.sep.bnl.gov in pub/debian/Incoming
> (probably other incoming mirrors as well).
>
> I doubt this has any patches which cause it to differ from the tgz
> version. I picked up the .tgz last week and compiled/installed it
> using kernel-package. I suppose some folks worry about having anything on
> their computer which wasn't installed from a package, but I can't see any
> real advantage to using kernel-source packages, unlike 2.0.33, which had a
> lot of patches applied to kernel-source (at least the latest version).
>
> Bob
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